'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7519302.stm
According to Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua this is "blood oil", akin to the trade in "blood diamonds" that fuelled bloody civil wars in West African neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Britain has promised military training... But activists in the Delta say that increasing the military presence would... increase resentment and militants' numbers - the level of violence would rise, they say.
And the Nigerian military is part of that violence, observers say.
Soldiers have indiscriminately burned whole towns and killed civilians, according to activists.
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